Find the smallest possible value of the expression
in which and vary over the set of positive integers. (Here denotes the biggest integer which is smaller than or equal to .)
Benelux Mathematical Olympiad 2014.
Find the smallest possible value of the expression
in which and vary over the set of positive integers. (Here denotes the biggest integer which is smaller than or equal to .)
Let be an integer. We consider chips, of which are red and of which are blue. A sequence of those chips can be transformed into another sequence by a so-called move, consisting of interchanging a number (possibly one) of consecutive red chips with an equal number of consecutive blue chips. For example, we can move from to where denotes a red chip and denotes a blue chip.
Determine the smallest number (as a function of ) such that starting from any initial sequence of the chips, we need at most moves to reach the state in which the first chips are red.
Find all positive integers with the following property: for each two positive divisors of , at least one of the numbers and is a (not necessarily positive) divisor of as well.
Let be a square. Consider a variable point inside the square for which . Let be the intersection of the line and the perpendicular to in . Let be the intersection of the line and the perpendicular to from . (a) Prove that . (b) For which point(s) does the inequality in (a) become an equality?